a commuter alert in new jersey, lanes are closed on route 42 after after a crash. meek will tell you thousand avoid the gridlock. >> also, a mom is in jail after police found her baby daughter abandoned in a motel room. what we're now learning about the woman's history with the law. and new jersey governor chris christie is calling on president trump is taking, and what christie is saying this morning: blood morning. >> i'm rahel solomon. some inmates use peanut butter to break out of jail. first, a check of the roads with katie -- on the roads with meisha and the weather katie. >> okay. looking outside right now, jim , you mentioned it, yes, an

accident, actually the investigation, and we'll get to it in a couple of minute. quiet weather for now, i do think we could see a shower or thunderstorm, but for now things are very clear, sun coming up later and late letter crack over the skyline at about 6:00 a.m. on the nose here, yes, as the sun glare becomes more and more of an issue little later in the morning here, we do have nice clear sky for you, and storm scan3 is definitely showing that virtually no cloud cover to speak of. there is a loop happening here , by watching the time stamp. it does change before you right there. now, current temperature readings generally also pretty comfortable start, at 73, mildest pack at philadelphia international airport. mid or upper 60s around much of the rest of the region, but still holding tough at pretty mild conditions here, dover, wildwood, now, as the day progresses, again, it will be a hot one. i think see more sun than anything, and thankfully humidity stays somewhat low out there. we do have the possibility after shower or storm again

through the p.m. time frame specially, meisha? >> humidity will be lower, all right, katie, thank you so much. just moment ago talking about jim mentioned this accident, yes, it is in the accident investigation in turnersville, in urge new jersey right now. the accident investigation stages underway from a three vehicle accident. actually happened around 2:00 a.m. so what's the status right now route 42 northbound is closed at college drive. you will have to use an alternate around this. route 55 or 168 is going to be your best bet. you can see a lot of activity there. a lot of this like i said under the investigation stages right now, so you won't see as many flashing lights, but still will have to use both alternates, then looking at the vine, vine closed overnight. westbound and eastbound completely closed down right now. see it looking very dark, very quiet. let you know as soon as crews move out of the way. overnight resurfaced projet checking on it again today on the schuylkill, westbound between city avenue and gladwynn, eastbound, between gulph mills and belmont avenue that's where you are going to

see predominantly most of the accident, see the cones in the road right there, again, i'll let you know as soon as the crews move out of the way. back to you. >> well ' check back with you soon, thank youment philadelphia mother facing charges this morning after her seven month old baby found alone in bucks county motel room. police arrest $35.03 year older did a lopez, for endangering the welfare after child. made at the nights n found her son wet, under the bed, left alone for about 24 hours, was taken to a hospital for evaluation. >> why someone would leave a seven month old in that condition is beyond me. but 31 years doing this job, i stop trying to figure people out a long time ago. >> investigators say this isn't her first run in with the law. philadelphia police say she let officers on a chase that nearly ended in a car crash last september. >> a $5,000 reward is being offered for the suspect wanted in the deadly shooting in haverford township. twenty-nine year old john lee

was gunned down saturday night , in what appears to be a random shooting. still searching for suspect here. caught on security camera leaving the scene in a red hoodie, better look at the suspect's haircut, facial hair police are linking this suspect expect to another shooting in the overbrook section 45 minute prior. no one injured in that shooting. >> a woman is in the hospital after emergency responders pull her from the schuylkill river near kelly drive and brewery hill drive. happened around 9:30 last night. now, it is not clear how the woman wounds up in the water but an eyewitness says the woman jumped in. so far no word on her condition. >> and anti-drug activist in lehigh count high pled guilt to weapons charges says he has no regret. in june of last year, police arrested john kramsey and two associate near the holland tunnel after finding various weapons including a military style rifle inside the truck. they said they were trying to rescue a teenager whose friends had overdosed.

kramsey, who lost his daughter to an overdose, says he will continue his fight against the urge every opioid addiction. pete rose is accused of having a sexual relationship with a woman when she was 14 or year years old. the woman made the claim in a defemation lawsuit that rose filed against a lawyer whose investigation got him kicked out of baseball. the statue of roseanne will inch duct him later this month woman says she and rose ghana sexual relationship in 73 and in cincinnati, but rose says the relationship began after she turned 16. which is the age of consent in ohio. >> new jersey's new bail reform rules are the target after lawsuit. duane chapman, the starve cable tv's dogs of bounty hunter, has co-announce add federal wrongful death lawsuit by the family after millville man. he claims a gunman who allegedly shot christian rogers, had been arrested for weapons offenses, and release

under new bail guidelines. >> my baby was not a person to fall through someone's cracks. this should not have happened to him. all he was doing was walking home from a convenience store. >> supporters of new rules which went into effect in january say they helped keep defendants from staying in jail, mainly because they can't afford bail. >> and rail and city officials have started a massive clean up project along the stretch of train tracks notorious for drug activity. come row hen i have efforts began, to secure the tracks between kensington and fairhill, half more of tracks is overrun with heroin needles and trash. the city has paid $90,000 to build series of passes along overpasses, additional police offers letters supplement conrail security. >> we are eliminating a situation that attracted drug users to the neighborhood from across the region in the northeast part of this country

>> conrail has attempt topped clean up this stretch of track on more than one occasion in the past. this time, they're implement ago long-term strategy, which includes providing temporary social services trailers to assist those struggling with homelessness and addiction. >> meantime, president trump's drug commission is urging him to declare a national emergency to deal with the country's opioid epidemic. new jersey governor chris christie spear heads the commission, he report that the 142 death each day from opioid overdoses means the death toll is, quote, equal to 9/11 lost every three weeks. >> the first recommendation we say the president, you must dollar national emergency. a public health emergency that will empower orr cabinet, he can tiff branch and motivate the congressional folks to be able to funds this and get on ton of it, because we have a crisis. >> and christie made fighting drug addiction a cornerstone of his failed 2016 presidential campaign. he has also dedicated his last year in office to the crisis.

>> well, president trump's lawyer is denying his client personally dictated his son's initial statement on that meeting last year with a russian lawyer. the washington post says the president dictated the statement on july 8th, while flying home from germany. donald trump, jr. first said the meeting was to discuss a russian adoption program. later the younger trump revealed that he accepted the meeting after being promised damaging information about hillary clinton. the president's attorney calls the post report misinformed, and inaccurate. >> president trump is looking for another communications director after the firing of anthony scaramucci 11 days into the job. the orders came at the urging every white house chief of staff john kelly on his first day on the job. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says the president believes scaramucci's recent off-color remarks to the new yorker were inapropriate. sanders also says kelly has the full authority to bring structure and discipline to the white house. >> well before calling it a night, president trump tweeted

it was a great day at the white house. >> in other news, sand dunes are flooding on the jersey shore. the mayor a controversial beach fill project in the linger flood waters. dunes in margate are preventing the water from draining properly. the army corps of engineers is involved in the project. they plan to pump the water over the dunes, and fill the basements with sand. neighbor says the project doing more harm than good. >> greatest resource, destroying the pollution, on this beach, the bacteria, the filth, the mess they're dredging up, the damage they're doing to the sea life. it is all unnecessary. >> the dunes are being built to protect commune communities during devastating storms. it heads to ventnor and longport beaches next today tonight is national night out, to foster partnerships between police and members of the community that they serve there. were several rallies last

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several red light, as well. eventually, the driver hit a pole. police arrested the driver and two passengers. >> we have an update to a story we told but this time yesterday. remember the inmates who escaped the jail in alabama? well, we're now learning they escaped with the help of peanut butter, yes, peanut butter. here's how they did t they used the peanut but the fresh sandwiches to change the appearance of a number on a door. they were shifty people there. then they have to guard, who this had just started working, to open the door. did he. not realizing it was a door to the outside. oh, oh. twelve inmate made it out on sunday, only one is still on the loose. >> teenager in illinois uses her voice as a weapon as a burglar breaks into her home. the home security camera catches the moment, yes, at that moment the burglar kicked in the front door, about 20 miles outside of chicago, he quickly runs up the stairs unaware the 16 year old girl had lock herself in her room and called her mom. the burglar then tries to open

her door, and the teen screamed as loud as she could. the sleek startled the burglar and he took off. her mother said she is so grateful her daughter wasn't hurt. >> i was eight minute away from my house. so fright toning have your daughter in the home a stranger kicks your front door in. she screamed bloody murder at the top of her lung t scared him to death. he proceed today run down the stairs and run out the front door. >> so glad she's okay. the teen ran down the stairs to watch the suspect get into his car and ride away. now offering $1,000 reward for his capture. >> a massive three alarm fire destroyed home in texas worth nearly a million dollars. >> this happened yesterday near houston. firefighters arrived to large flames shooting from the roof of the home. big black smoke could be seen from as far away as miles, officials believe the blaze began in the garage before quickly spreading throughout the rest of the home. the house burned for about two hours, but no one was at home at the time. >> tropical storm emily has been downgraded to tropical depression after making landfall in florida.

the storm landed on the state 's west coast on monday morning, at the height of the storm, 31 counties were under a state of emergency. and 18,000 people were without power. the storm system dumped several inches of rain, packed winds in excess of 40 miles per hour, forecasters say the storm is expected to regain tropical storm strength as it moves over the atlantic and away from florida. katie has been downgraded but how destructive do you think this is? >> even though you have a downgraded storm here, remember, that they base these categories strictly on the wind speed. so you can still have incredible amount of rainfall even if something that's not even tropical. so it can definitely still cause major headaches, i think the sunshine state, not seeing a heck of a lot from it, is really bearing the brunt of this. the storm itself is now going to be pulling away. it is going out. we'll show you the latest expectation with the track. the latest update, winds

speeds currently 30 miles per hour, the sluggish 12 miles per hour, so it does have ample time, certainly ample moisture to dump a lot of rain now, as this continues to trek northeast, thankfully, it not even expected to graze the carolyn a coastline let alone ours. i don't expect this is any kind of direct threat to anybody else except for florida obviously, but notice this may not achieve any additional strength as it continues it trek. so, again, these forecasts continue to get updated all the time. but does still appear as though it will remain out to sea thankfully, more than anything just due to the slow of the atmosphere right now. so it didn't have a heck of a lot of strength to work with anyway, atmosphere at large helping to keep it out to sea once completely off the florida coastline. meanwhile back here locally, we do still have quiet weather , high pressure still technically in place, starting to weaken somewhat. so at some point later today you may see spotty showers or thunderstorms fire up. i with not let that

thunderstorm icon scare you off from outdoor plans recalling more than anything plan for the temperature it, does get pretty hot here the next couple every days, hit at least 9 degrees, friday bring ing in steamy conditions, and we flirt with 90 with a few showers and storms, smear. >> katie, thank you so much for. that will very good morning to all of you. happy tuesday. so looking right now just a lot of construction, and an accident, accident investigation, in jersey. first looking outside, 422 eastbound, this is between first avenue and trooper, the right lane compromised because of construction, see the flashing light, not yet moved out of the way. i'll let you know as soon as they do. over knit resurfaced project on the schuylkill. talking about it yesterday and again today, between city avenue and gladwynn, eastbound , and it looks like crews might be picking up this area right now. they're scheduled to move out around 5:00 a.m. so i'll let you know as soon as completely clear. the vine closed overnight for the construction, westbound and eastbound. not quite sure where that guy is but still look like both

closed. but that might be just crust still driving around, or maybe the eastbound side for one, actually clearing before the westbound side. see what ends up happening there. then accident investigation, what we were just talking about, turnersville, new jersey, three vehicle accident , happened around 2:00 a.m. in n stages right now. two people have been transported to the hospital. route 42 northbound closed between college driver and route 534. your alternate 168 or route 55 more coming up in a little bit back to you. >> thank you shall meisha. the olympics are coming to america. >> hear why the deal between the olympic committee in los angeles is good news for young athletes in the city. we'll be right back. ♪ when you step into summer, don't get caught with rough dry feet. try amopé pedi-perfect. it buffs away hard skin...

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>> it is official, los angeles will host the summer olympics in 2028. the international olympic committee confirmed the news yesterday, rival cities, paris , and la made a deal that par list host games in 2024, l a will then host them in 2028 both sit wrist competing for the 2024 summer games, after several other contenders

withdrew. la's mayor was proud to announce the games were coming back to the u.s. >> in 2028, we're bringing the games back to la. one of the great capitols of this olympic movement. a sit that i has always been a game changer, and will be again in 2028. >> now, the decision will be formally declared at a meeting in peru next month. the last time the us hosed the summer olympics back in 1996 in atlanta under the terms of the deal, los angeles received as much as $2 billion from the international olympic committeement some of the mondayly go toward youth sports programs. the time 45:00; time for check on business news. >> money watch's roxanna joins us live from new york, the new york being exchanges with more , so another record day on wall street yesterday. so the biggest players in cable tv are emerging. what's the latest on that? >> good morning, jim, rahel. yes, here on wall street yesterday, the dow gained 60-point, jump to go another

record high. the nasdaq dropped 26. also, on monday, discovery announces buying script for merely $12 billion. on the news, discovery stocks fled more than 8%, scripts rose about half%. the move formed huge company discovery and the discovery script. script hg tv and the travel channel. it still needs approval from share holder. >> very interesting. so, roxanna, apple fans have been asking me for weeks when is the iphone eight coming out i don't have a clue. do you? >> welshing we might get a clue today. apple is releasing its earnings reports today. and analysts say if the revenue outlook is on the high ends it, may suggest smart phone could go on sale later this month. apple is expected to show more money in the bank, with the iphone eight's upcoming release, many people ready to upgrade, and the tenth anniversary of the original iphone. jim, rahel? >> roxanna, all kind of leaks about what features the new

phone they have. very interested to see what the new iphone eight looks like. >> looking forward to it. >> roxanna, thank you, see you in the next hour. >> well, starting the month on a very comfortable note. >> but katie is tracking some rain. she'll have her forecast when "eyewitness news"

how dixie ultra plates?roved with two pounds of steak. in each hand. dixie ultra. stress tested so you can stress less at dinner. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> good morning, everyone, a nice live look there for you at the franklin institute. which we are very proud weather partners with. and we're looking ahead, all-in-all, here to a pretty nice summer day. still not terribly humid. i think those dew point start to creep up ever so slightly, but for the beginning every august, can you believe we're in august already, the humidity level shouldn't be all that intolerable. you will find is some heat to go along with the forecast and some sunshine. it is clear, will stay that way throughout the course of the day, as it does so, of course, we'll heat up

efficiently here. expect that even despite the relatively low humidity, it is still a hot day. 91 degrees, pretty light wind. not real a lot of a breeze to help cool you off all that much. ninety-one under the sunshine, dow think you have to allow for shower or thunderstorm specially toward night fall. or at least towards the second half of the day, at earliest, drop down to 72 degrees, overnight, quick check, on that seven day forecast for you here, three straight days into the low 90s, and couple every unsettled afternoons to go with it, all in advance of sluggish passage, of a frontal boundary. it is the weekend shall meisha >> katie, thank you so much. right now, we are looking outside. what you are looking at, video after accident investigation, so the accident happened in turnersville, new jersey, three vehicle accident happened around 2:00 a.m. two people were transported to the hospital here. forty-two northbound, right now is closed between college drive and route 534. so you will have to use an alternate around this, 168 or route 55, is going to be your best bet. probably not going to see as much activity like i said, it is just in the accident

investigation stages, but you will see the flashing light and so for thement i'll let you know as soon as that clears, but that's what you are dealing with there. the vine closed overnight for the construction, westbound side, you're open and eastbound side, you're actually still closed. we'll let you know as soon as the eastbound side closes up. some construction here 422 eastbound between first avenue and trooper, the lane is compromised. people outside their vehicle, be very careful, still very dark out there. good news the overnight on the schuylkill, that's now since been cleared, westbound between city avenue and gladwynn, eastbound between gulph mills and belmont avenue so, big thumbs-up there. that's now since cleared. that will start to get little busy for us. some construction on the boulevard, talking about this coming up in the next ten minutes, jim, back over to you >> thank you shall meisha. coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news," someone in our area is $120,000 richer. is it you? >> no. >> not me either. we will tell you where a winning lottery ticket was sold. >> also, a man climbs philadelphia city hall in broad daylight, never runs into anyone. we'll tell you what the mayors

office has to say. >> oh, oh. and hearing governor christie 's side of the story about the altercation he had a with a fan during a baseball game sunday. we're back at the top of the hour. don't go away.

>> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news " this morning. trespassing hundreds of feet above philadelphia, a daredevil climbs to the top of city hall, unnoticed. we're live with more on why he did it, and what the mayor's offers is saying about this dangerous stunt. plus this. >> the new white house chief of staff takes over and his first order of business getting rid of the communications director. i'm in new york with the latest at the white house. and we have a commuter alert, if you are getting ready to head out the door, part of r